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Classic Chicken and Dumplings

Dear Sis,

William’s very favorite dish at Cracker Barrel is Chicken and Dumplings. This week we made some at home with success. It’s a new family favorite!

Classic Chicken and Dumplings

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Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Servings 8 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 10 c chicken stock
  • 1 lb. carrots, peeled and sliced
  • 1/2 t basil
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1/2 t garlic powder
  • 1/2 t salt
  • 1 rotissery chicken, shredded
  • 1 1/2 c frozen peas

Dumplings

  • 2 c flour
  • 3/4 c buttermilk
  • 1/4 c slated butter, melted
  • 1/2 t baking soda
  • 1/2 t salt

Instructions
 

  • Combine stock, carrots, and seasoning in a large stock pot. Bring to a boil.
  • Whisk dry dumpling ingredients together. Add wet ingredients and stir until combined. Roll dough out on a floured surface to less than a 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 2 inch squares with a pizza wheel. Toss a few dumplings at a time into boiling broth.
  • Boil 10-15 minutes until carrots are soft and dumplings are cooked. Stir in peas and serve.

Dinner is served!

Love,

b

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Creamy Italian Chicken Pasta

Dear Sis,

Today we had a delicious dinner that tasted way better than the amount of work I put into it! It’s another from the Taste of Home Almost Homemade 2013 cookbook we found at the little free library some weeks ago. 

Creamy Italian Chicken Pasta

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Course Main Course
Servings 4

Ingredients
  

  • 4 chicken breasts thin sliced
  • 1 envelope Italian salad dressing mix
  • 1/4 c water
  • 1 (8 oz) pkg cream cheese soft
  • 1 (10.75 oz) can cream of chicken soup
  • 1 (4 oz) can sliced mushrooms drained
  • 1 (9 oz) pkg refrigerated linguine cooked

Instructions
 

  • Place chicken in a slow cooker. Combine dressing mix and water. Pour over chicken. Cook on low 1.5 hours.
  • Whip together cream cheese and soup until smooth. Fold in mushrooms. Pour over chicken and cook another half hour.
  • Serve over fresh pasta.

Everyone enjoyed it! It’s always wonderful to add another recipe to my cookbook of family approved recipes:)

Love,

b

Great Grandma’s Cabbage Rolls

Dear Sis,

Our neighbors gave us a cabbage a few weeks ago. I haven’t bought cabbage in the better part of a decade because Josh doesn’t enjoy it, but since this one just showed up I decided to turn it into an old family classic. 

Great Grandma's Cabbage Rolls

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 head of cabbage
  • 1 lb. ground turkey
  • 1 lb. ground turkey breakfast sausage
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 1/2 c rice uncooked
  • 1 (14.5 oz) can diced tomatoes
  • 1 (10.5 oz) can condensed tomato soup

Instructions
 

  • Core and boil cabbage, pulling off leaves as they cook and soften.
  • Brown meat and onion. Stir in rice and diced tomatoes.
  • Wrap meat mixture in cabbage leaves.
  • Combine soup and 1 cup cabbage water. Pour over cabbage rolls.
  • Cover with foil and bake 45 minutes at 350.

Notes

Great Grandma used ground veal and pork breakfast sausage instead of turkey. 

We invited Carter’s family to help us eat it all up. Mama Jenn was kind enough to make and bring mashed potatoes to go with it. We had your Cheater Apple Dumplings for dessert. Your batch is too big for our family, so I always make a half batch instead.

Cheater Apple Dumplings

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Ingredients
  

  • 1 (8 oz) can crescent rolls
  • 2 apples peeled, cored, and quartered
  • 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
  • 1 t vanilla extract
  • 1 (7.5 oz) can Mt. Dew soda

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven to 350. Butter a square baking dish.
  • Wrap each apple slice in a crescent roll and arrange in prepared pan.
  • Combine sugar, butter, and vanilla. Spread over rolls. Pour soda into the corner of the dish carefully, so it doesn't disturb the sugar mixture.
  • Bake 30-35 minutes until golden and cooked through.

Love,

b

Homemade Pizza Dough to Share

Dear Sis,

We have given out cookies four times in the last week and a half. Today we decided to share something a bit different with some of our neighbors and friends.

Each kit contains dough for two pizzas, wrapped in plastic wrap, a small bag of cornmeal, and an instruction print out in a freezer bag.

Homemade Pizza Dough Recipe

Homemade Pizza Instruction Printable

Happy Sharing!

Love,

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